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2/5/2009 1:16:55 PM |
Gainesville Virginia UFO Wave continues in 2009 Hello,
I am reporting a UFO sighting I had in Gainesville Virginia in January 2009.
After I had the sighting I wanted to research if anyone else in the area saw the same lights I saw.
During this research I have found a ongoing UFO wave that has been occurring in Northern Virginia since 2008 and continuing in 2009.
I wanted to report this UFO wave to you in hopes that others in Virginia and Washington DC have also seen these strange lights in the sky.
Thanks,
#1. Sighting Report:
January 2009 Gainesville Virginia
Spectacular Lights seen to separate in Virginia outside Washington DC
At approximately 7:00pm on Saturday January 3 2009 my wife and I went into our backyard to walk our dogs. We were in the backyard for only a few minutes when I saw a bright light that seemed to be stationary in the Northeast sky. I pointed the light out to my wife and than noticed it was slightly moving from north to south. We live 40 miles outside Washington DC, near Dulles airport, so we do see a lot of airplane traffic. I started to think we must be looking at a slow moving airplane. As the light got closer I noticed there wasn't any Aircraft or Beacon lights (blinking lights) and this light was not acting like a conventional aircraft should. The light would slowly move then stop and stay stationary for several minutes, then would start moving again. While we watched the light I told my wife to stay and watch so I can go inside to grab the camera. I ran into the house, grabbed the camera and opened the back sliding glass door. Just as I started filming, the light was just making it over my house, I told my wife to meet me in the front yard. As I ran to the front yard and met my wife, I again started filming the light, at this point it was slowly flying above Orion, which was just rising in the eastern sky. This is when the unbelievable happened. Just as the light was above Orions belt my wife said "Look it's turning around" I couldn't believe my eyes. The light was making a complete U-Turn. But even more spectacular, as the light made the U-Turn, another light continued moving south and stayed on the original path. What I'm trying to say is-the light we were originally watching turned into two separate lights. One made a complete 180 degree turn headed back north and was blue in color, the other light continued south. These two lights were somehow connected together and than separated. The light that U-Turned off the original light soon stopped and remained stationary for approximately five minutes as the other light continued south. Soon after the original light was out of sight the U-Turned light started moving again towards the north until it was out of sight. During this sighting my neighbor was also walking his dog, he saw my wife and I starring at something. He came over and was also able to see the two lights after they separated. I have followed up with the FAA, the local air traffic control in Manassas Virginia and Dulles International Airport. I will keep you posted of any updates.
#2. Sighting Report:
December 14, 2008
Gainesville Virginia-40 miles outside Washington DC
I wanted to report a interesting sighting that occurred at 13:00 hours(1:00pm) on December 14 2008 in the towns of Gainesville/Haymarket Virginia, near Washington DC.
I am a Meteorologist and amateur astronomer with many years of trained observation of the day and night time sky. Included in this report is the 11:00am-2:00pm hourly weather report for the day the sighting occurred, Dec 14 2008(1:00pm) and the Astronomical data for December 14 2008. 1:52 PM, Sun 14 December 2008 47° 28° 48% 30.45in 10mi 25000ft S13mph 0mph Broken Clouds 12:52 PM, Sun 14 December 2008 46° 27° 47% 30.45in 10mi 25000ft S13mph 0mph Broken Clouds 11:52 AM, Sun 14 December 2008 45° 25° 46% 30.5in 10mi 25000ft S17mph 24mph Broken Clouds 10:52 AM, Sun 14 December 2008 42° 28° 58% 30.53in 10mi 12000ft S13mph 0mph Broken Clouds Astronomical Data for December 14, 2008: Rise: Set: Actual Time: 7:19 AM EST 4:47 PM EST Civil Twilight: 6:49 AM EST 5:17 PM EST Nautical Twilight: 6:15 AM EST 5:50 PM EST Astronomical Twilight: 5:43 AM EST 6:22 PM EST Moon: 7:08 PM EST (12/14) 9:22 AM EST (12/14) Length Of Visible Light: 10h 27m Length of Day: 9h 28m Waning Gibbous, 94% Moon Illumination Sighting Report Gainesville Va Dec 14 2008 Continued- I set out to walk my dog just as the 1:00pm football games were beginning. As I walked into my backyard I was looking at the long contrails extending north to south across the deep blue sky. I soon noticed a lower flying aircraft flying from the northeast to the southwest. As I watched the aircraft I noticed a small white object following close behind it. Stunned at first, I starred at the object trying to figure out what this object could be. After a few seconds of observation I noticed the object was white in color and disk or orb like in appearance. While I watched the white disk it started swinging back and forth behind the airplane in a left to right type fashion. I wondered at first if I was seeing a big white bird, I quickly realized this was definitely not the case. As I watched the object swing left to right it all a sudden dove or dropped straight down and flew underneath the airplane for a few seconds, it then swung just under the plane to the left side and amazingly completely circled the airplane and then again trailed behind it. I was absolutely amazed at what I was seeing, it was at this point I thought to myself, do I have time to run inside and grab my camera. I hesitated at first thinking the object would be gone by the time I got back. Than I thought, I have to try because know one will believe me if I don't get a picture-so off I went running. I grabbed the camera, ran back outside and was just able to take a short video as the object disappeared over Haymarket toward the Bull Run mountains. I have tried to consider other explanations for this object but have been mostly unable to do so. The only possibility could be a in flight refuel for the air combats that are deployed to protect Washington DC airspace. I don't think this is much of a possibility since the aircraft the object was following was not military but a passenger plane. The white disk I saw was also not a conventional military aircraft. There wasn't any wings visible on the craft and the craft was more disk/orb like in appearance. I wanted to report this sighting to you in hopes that someone else in my area may have also seen this remarkable ariel display.
#3. Sighting Report:10/19/2008 Gainesville, Va
Metallic Object Seen In Gainesville Virginia.
Hello, I saw this object as I walked outside at about 11:00 am. A bright flash caught my attention in the northern sky. At first I assumed I was looking at a airplane. I quickly noticed this wasn't a airplane but a short stubby metallic object. This object is hard to describe-please see accompanied photos for a better explanation. The object moved at normal speed and seemed to just silently glide from the north east to south west toward the Mountains. This object could have been a aircraft unknown to me so please see the photos to make your own assumption. I did not take these photographs. I found these when researching the object I saw. These photos where taken on interstate 95 south in Fairfax County Va on the same day I saw the object. Fairfax is about 15 miles from me. The photos were taken while the witness was stuck in traffic. He had seen this object stationary and then something smaller flew into it and then out of it. The pictures shows exactly the object I saw and it was on the same day-this has to be the same object.
Cheers
#4. Sighting Report:
Occurred : 10/7/2008 20:30
Location: Gainesville/Haymarket, VA Shape: Circle
Duration: 1-2 Minutes
Two extremely fast moving lights spotted in Virginia.
Hello, I am reporting a series of lights my wife and I saw in the Gainesville/Haymarket Va area. Between 8:00-8:30pm my wife and I were traveling in our car near the Gainesville/Haymarket Virginia area when she said "LOOK, what in the world is that, look how fast it's moving" I stopped the car, look out her window and saw an extremely fast moving light heading west. We didn't hear any sound and the light was a interesting one. I can only describe it as a circle with a reddish light on the bottom that slowly glowed brighter as the light sped away in a westerly direction. The light was moving at such speeds it's hard to describe it accurately. I estimate it at approximately 100 feet off the ground and covering 10-15 miles in just seconds, I would assume there has to be regulations against such speeds at these lower levels. The light was moving from east to west and in a flash it was out of sight over the Bull Run mountains. If that wasn't enough excitement for one night we encountered another light just minutes after seeing the first. As we proceeded on from the first sighting, approx 3-5 miles, heading toward the Manassas Battlefield, we encountered another light. This light was also moving east to west but was neon green in color and noticeably much smaller. The light was also close to the ground, know higher than 100 feet and again moving at a speed faster than any conventional aircraft known. Just like the first light, it was headed toward the Bull Run Mountains and in a flash it was gone. I am a avid astronomer and know this wasn't a Meteor or any other type of natural light phenomena. I am also a very practical person and I quite can't wrap my head around what this possibly was. I wanted to report this to you in hopes maybe someone else in the area saw the same thing we did. Thanks
#5. Sighting Report
Occurred : 10/17/2008 09:30 Location: Leesburg, VA.
FYI-15 Miles From Gainesville/Haymarket Va
Shape: Circle
Duration: 30 seconds
Large Green light over leesburg, VA
Large green glowing object approx. the size of the moon dipped below the clouds swiftly, then around 25-30 seconds later went quickly back into clouds and disappeared. Moved too quickly for and man made aircraft. Seemed to be SE of Leesburg possibly near Dulles International Airport
#6. Sighting Report
Occurred : 10/12/2008 23:00 Location: Gainesville, VA
Shape: Light
Duration: 5 minutes
Bright Blue Fluorescent Light Seen in Virginia Outside Washington DC.
I am reporting a strange light I saw over Gainesville Va. While my wife and I were walking our dog I noticed a bright almost fluorescent Blue light stationary in the North Eastern sky. After a few minutes of observing the object, the light started to move. The light quickly picked up speed, abruptly slowed to a stop, starting moving again and than sped off to the South West at a tremendous pace. The blue color of this light is hard to describe, it was the strangest bright translucent fluorescent blue I have ever seen. I am baffled at what this object was.
Thank You
#7. Sighting Report
Occurred : 9/14/2008 05:20
Location: Purcellville, VA
FYI-10 miles from Gainesville/Haymarket Va
Shape: Unknown
Duration: 10-12 minutes
Bright circle of lights with red lights around it and then white lights, hovering then moving off slowly I saw what appeared to be a very bright star/planet in the sky to the SW of my house. I looked at it for a bit, then stepped out to see how bright the other stars were and to see if I could identify a constellation for reference. The stars were not bright at all so I wondered if I would hear about this in the news later. Then as I was watching it started to slowly move, as it moved closer the bright light appeared to be 3 or 4 lights in the center. At first I thought it might just be a Harrier as it appeared to be over the vicinity of Mt. Weather, VA along the Shenandoah River. Then I realized the lights were clustered with blinking red lights around that and a few white lights on the outer perimeter. It came almost directly over me and I know airplanes, I worked at an FBO and there were no outer wings lights, tail or nose lights. I could determine no shape whatsoever. I heard it, it was a muffled plane sound. It was not a chopper. It went over the house and I went in. I just kept thinking about it and I am sending this to you and do wish I had grabbed my camera or my phone for photo.
#8. Sighting Report
Location: Gainesville, VA
Shape: Light
Duration: 3 minutes
High, bright small light heading W/NW While out on our backyard deck enjoying the evening and looking for fireflies, my wife spotted a very high, very bright light almost overhead, approaching from the West-to-SouthWest direction and approximately 10:00 high in the direction, which is blocked by trees any lower than that. As we watched it travel almost directly overhead toward the East-to-NorthEast direction, we both noticed very clearly that there were no navigation or strobe lights on it as are always on aircraft. Sky conditions: It is a very clear night tonight but with considerable light pollution in our area so very few stars are visible. The moon is only about 10-15 degrees above the horizon in the South-Southeast, and above and to the right of that is a bright star which may be Saturn (we're not astronomers, but a neighbor had been talking about viewing it with his telescope and it seems to be about in the right direction and time).We would estimate the brightness of the light to be approximately 2-3 times greater than that of Saturn (or whatever that brightest star is in the S-SE) with a great deal of "clarity" and precision to the light, a very bright, pinpoint-like light. While it very well could be a satellite or the ISS or something else, we felt it worth mentioning here because of two primary reasons: 1) Complete lack of normal NAV lights or beacons per a standard aircraft configuration. Only a very bright light, and we noted as it traveled away from us that they also couldn't be landing lights, since it was as bright going away from us as it was overhead.2) Apparent speed: Altitude is almost impossible to guess at here since there was nothing to give away the size...again, it could have been at a normal-high altitude (10K ft. or higher) or in low orbit like a satellite or the ISS. The only clue to altitude was any sound, and there was none, which gave the impression of a very high altitude (20-30K minimum). With that altitude, the speed just simply didn't seem right; it was traveling at least twice, if not three times, as fast as any comparable commercial jet that we normally see at that altitude. Since these two things made it very unusual, we watched it travel the complete distance almost to the low horizon in the distance before it was out of sight. That took only about 2 to 3 minutes maximum - again, much quicker than the usual commercial or military jet. It did not change course at any time, altitude did not seem to vary either. We're mentioning it here primarily for the interest of correlating it with any other sightings that may coincide, or to see if possibly the ISS or a satellite is the reason. Background: Wife and I don't drink, don't do any recreational drugs, not "UFO-holics", married 18 wonderful years, in our late-40's / early 50's, wear corrective lenses (glasses for her, contact lenses for me), no regular medications and in good physical and mental health (knock on wood), she is a lab technician and I am an engineer with a lifelong interest in aviation and a few hours towards my private pilot's license, essentially a wanna-be pilot and "airplane geek", so have a very fair degree of experience in observing and identifying a very large number of aircraft at different altitudes, positions, and sky/weather conditions.
#9. Sighting Report
Location: Gainesville, VA
Shape: Fire ball
Duration: 10 seconds
Green light falling from sky over Haymarket, Virginia area.
This event occurred Tuesday evening as I was driving back to my home located in Gainesville, VA. I was heading in the North Western direction at the time, and out of the left corner of my I saw a strange greenish tint object falling towards the ground over Haymarket Va.
These are a few of the Gainesville Va sightings I have found. I will keep you posted of any others I come across.
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